Steward Observatory Journal Club

Room N305, 12:00 - 1:00 Wednesdays
Contact: Phil Hinz

Please sign up by contacting Phil . For students who take JC for credit, please talk to me about your paper selection at least a week (preferably more) in advance.

Some suggestions:

Schedule





Date

Speaker

Discussion Topic

Aug. 22

Phil Hinz

A New Planet Around an M Dwarf: Revealing a Correlation Between Exoplanets and Stellar Mass Johnson et al. 2007
Specific Angular Momentum of Extrasolar Planetary Systems , Armstrong et al. 2007

Dennis Zaritsky

A Dark Core in Abell 520 Mahdavi et al. 2007
with some minor comments on ...
The speed of the `bullet' in the merging galaxy cluster 1E0657-56 Springel & Farrar 2007
The Bullet Cluster 1E0657-558 evidence shows Modified Gravity in the absence of Dark Matter J. R. Brownstein, J. W. Moffat 2007

Aug. 29

Romeel Dave

Why Do Only Some Galaxy Clusters Have Cool Cores? Burns, Hallman, Gantner, Motl, Norman

Andy Skemer

A Map of the Day-Night Contrast of the Extrasolar Planet HD189733b Knutson et al, 2007.
Analysis of Spitzer Spectra of Irradiated Planets: Evidence for Water Vapor? Fortney et al, 2007.

Sep. 5

Daniel Apai

Detailed Models of Super-Earths: How Well Can We Infer Bulk Properties?
Valencia, Diana; Sasselov, Dimitar D.; O'Connell, Richard J. 2007 ApJ 665, 1413

Jeremiah Murphy

Rapid planetesimal formation in turbulent circumstellar disks
Johansen et al. 2007

Sep. 12

Matt Kenworthy

The Gemini Deep Planet Survey -- GDPS
Lafreniere et al. 2007
http://arxiv.org/abs/0705.4290

Kristian Finlator

The Growth of Luminous Red Galaxies by Merging
by Masjedi, Hogg, & Blanton
  http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.3240

Sep. 19

Nathan Stock

The effect of a planet on the dust distribution in a 3D protoplanetary disk
   Fouchet, Maddison, Gonzalez, and Murray
   http://arxiv.org/abs/0708.4110

Jill Bechtold

New Extremely Metal-Poor Stars in the Galactic Halo
   Judy Cohen et al.
   http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.0029

Sep. 26

Phil Hinz

The Origin of the Young Stars in the Nucleus of M31
   P. Chang et al. , ApJ accepted
   http://arxiv.org/abs/0704.3831

Erik Brogt

The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. I. Overview and Clusters Without Previous HST Photometry
Sarajedini et al., AJ  133, 1658
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0612598

Oct. 3

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Oct. 10

Ed Olszewski

Is the sky falling? Searching for stellar streams in the local Milky Way disc in the CORAVEL and RAVE surveys
Authors: G. M. Seabroke, G. Gilmore, A. Siebert, O. Bienayme, J. Binney, J. Bland-Hawthorn, R. Campbell, K. C. Freeman, B. Gibson, E. K. Grebel, A. Helmi, U. Munari, J. F. Navarro, Q. A. Parker, A. Siviero, M. Steinmetz, F. G. Watson, R. F. G. Wyse, T. Zwitter, J. Penarrubia, M. C. Smith, M. Williams
http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.4219

Jim Liebert

A Summary of the Third Meeting on Hydrogen-Deficient Stars
http://astro.uni-tuebingen.de/~rauch/HYDEF07.html

Oct. 17

Shane Bussman

The contribution of very massive high-redshift SWIRE galaxies to
the stellar mass function"
Berta et al, accepted by A&A.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.0300

Ann Zabludoff

The supernova rate in local galaxy clusters
Authors: F. Mannucci, D. Maoz, K. Sharon, M. T. Botticella, M. Della
Valle, A. Gal-Yam, N. Panagia
http://xxx.lanl.gov/abs/0710.1094

Oct. 24

Grant Williams

What Gamma-Ray Bursts Explode Into
R. A. Chevalier
http://arxiv.org/abs/0706.0461

Jason Harris

The Chemical Enrichment History of the Large Magellanic Cloud" by
Carrera et al.

http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3076

Oct. 31

Moire Prescott

Diffuse UV light associated with the Spiderweb Galaxy: evidence for in-situ         star formation outside galaxies
   Hatch et al.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.4553

Joannah Hinz

Far-Infrared Spitzer Observations of Elliptical Galaxies:  Evidence
for Extended Diffuse Dust
Temi et al. 2007, ApJ, 660, 1215
http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0701431

Nov. 7

John Bieging

The Spitzer Survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud:  Discovery
of Embedded Protostars in the H II Region NGC 346
Simon et al.  (ApJ 669, 327) (2007 Nov. 1)
http://arxiv.org/abs/0707.3998

Christy Tremonti

Evidence for Quasar Activity Triggered by Galaxy Mergers in HST
Observations of Dust-reddened Quasars
Urrutia, Lacy, & Becker
http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.2805

Nov. 14

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Nov. 21

Aleks Diamond-Stanic


J.D. Smith

Large amounts of optically-obscured star formation in the host galaxies of some type-2 quasars
M. Lacy et al.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0709.4069

Nov. 28

Dennis Just

Spitzer Constraints on the Stellar Populations of
Lyman-Alpha Emitting Galaxies at z=3.1
Kamson Lai et al.
http://arxiv.org/abs/0710.3384

Open


Dec. 5

Dave Sand

Dark Matter and Baryons in the Most X-ray Luminous and Merging Galaxy Cluster RX J1347.5-1145
Bradac et al.
http://xxx.arxiv.org/abs/0711.4850

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